>
>The key thing is that GCC was responsible for creating Linux. The
other
>programs would have been written if they didn't already exist. Since
they
>DID already exist, there was no point in wasting the effort to
reinvent
>wheels and these other programs were SUPPOSED to be free. Now we see
that
>
On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 09:20:19AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
> :
> : 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
> : must display the follo
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
: >
: > On 25 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote:
: >
: > >
: > > Where are you getting this? I know of nothing that requires any such
: > > thing.
: >
: > Tell Stallman that,
:
: Stallman asks people to consider calling their operating syste
>
> On 25 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote:
>
> >
> > Where are you getting this? I know of nothing that requires any such
> > thing.
>
> Tell Stallman that,
Stallman asks people to consider calling their operating system
GNU/linux (http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html). Since Linus
acknowle
I wrote:
> Where are you getting this? I know of nothing that requires any such
> thing.
George Bonser writes:
> Tell Stallman that,
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/technology/zdnet/story.html?s=n/zdnet/technology/19990325/19990325301
So? This is old news. So RMS has his opinion. I have
George Bonser writes:
> The other programs would have been written if they didn't already
> exist. Since they DID already exist, there was no point in wasting the
> effort to reinvent wheels and these other programs were SUPPOSED to be
> free. Now we see that there is a big giant string attached to
>
> On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>
> > > I think this statement is absolute truth. Linux wouldn't exist without
> > > GCC, but it certainly could without textutils or shellutils and suchlike.
>
> > interesting opinion. Maybe you never tried to "dpkg --purge --force-depends
> >
On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > I think this statement is absolute truth. Linux wouldn't exist without
> > GCC, but it certainly could without textutils or shellutils and suchlike.
> interesting opinion. Maybe you never tried to "dpkg --purge --force-depends
> --force-essential
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 06:51:49AM -0600, Jonathan Guthrie wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, David B. Teague wrote:
>
> > > The importance of compilers was one reason I chose to license Linux
> > > under the GNU Public License (GPL). The GPL was the license for the
> > > GCC compiler. I think that all
Jonathan Guthrie wrote:
>
> > > I can't get xemacs-20 to suspend with
> > > CNTRL-Z on my computer so I either have to use multiple virtual terminals
> > > or do everything under X.
You didn't say what it is you need to do when you suspend XEmacs, so
this may not help...
Since you don't like mul
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Brian Servis wrote:
> *- On 24 Mar, Jonathan Guthrie wrote about "Re: The GNU thing"
> > I can't get xemacs-20 to suspend with
> > CNTRL-Z on my computer so I either have to use multiple virtual terminals
> > or do everything under X.
*- On 24 Mar, Jonathan Guthrie wrote about "Re: The GNU thing"
>
> Okay, so emacs is a religion, I can deal with that. I use emacs the
> editor quite a bit. However, I can't get xemacs-20 to suspend with
> CNTRL-Z on my computer so I either have to use multipl
Jonathan Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| On 24 Mar 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
|
| > Jonathan Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| > | Okay, so emacs is a religion, I can deal with that. I use emacs the
| > | editor quite a bit. However, I can't get xemacs-20 to suspend with
| > | CN
On 24 Mar 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
> Jonathan Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> | Okay, so emacs is a religion, I can deal with that. I use emacs the
> | editor quite a bit. However, I can't get xemacs-20 to suspend with
> | CNTRL-Z on my computer so I either have to use multiple virtu
Jonathan Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
| Okay, so emacs is a religion, I can deal with that. I use emacs the
| editor quite a bit. However, I can't get xemacs-20 to suspend with
| CNTRL-Z on my computer so I either have to use multiple virtual terminals
| or do everything under X.
|
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, David B. Teague wrote:
> > The importance of compilers was one reason I chose to license Linux
> > under the GNU Public License (GPL). The GPL was the license for the
> > GCC compiler. I think that all the other projects from the GNU group
> > are for Linux insignificant in co
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote:
>
> I thought the following comment from Linus was interesting. It comes from
> an article he wrote at www.linuxworld.com
>
> ...
> The importance of compilers was one reason I chose to license Linux
> under the GNU Public License (GPL). The GPL was the
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